ATI Tray Tools is a program that runs in the system tray, providing easy right-click access to all of your ATI video cards’ main settings. Some of its features allow you to change anisotropic filtering+antialiasing levels in Direct3D and OpenGL, adjust image quality, turn on/off special driver features, or simply play around with clock settings. The program uses only very minimal system resources and is not intrusive.

This freeware program comes with support for the following features: ATI Control Center; Game profiles with desktop shortcut creation; Direct3D settings with templates, GUI form and tray pop-up menu; System wide Hot keys, (load profiles any profile/work with colours/run any application); Support for TV Out and displays with profiles; options to change Theater mode together with TV out; overclocking with templates including FAN Control; automatic overclocking when application required 3D mode; temperature monitoring; artifact tester with ability to find maximum stable clocks for GPU and memory; Radeon information show information about memory type, active rendering pipe lines and more; hardware tweaks, setting PCI latency timer; and many more.

ATI Tray Tools is very light, and amazes me with the tremendous amount of features the publishers have been able to include in it. For a freeware program to contain such quality features; I think it is a fine program.

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Red button is a program for Windows optimization, and is licensed as a free ware. The program can be used for the following: to reduce the space occupied by a system on a disk; to switch off and remove unnecessary, disturbing to work components; to increased speed of loading, work, turn off of system; in time to clean “junk” files; to raise safety and convenience of system; to reduce degree of influence on environment; and to lower system charges. Apart from the features included in previous version of Red Button, users can also find additional changes in version 3.96 which include; some bug fixes, improved disk cleaner wildcards features, improved safety of the program, addition of a feature removal of invalid shortcuts, and GUI improved.

Besides the new features and changes, users still have the benefits of enjoying some of its old features which include: ease of use; light size; easy to understand user-interface; support for all latest client versions of Windows; portability; increase gaming performance on computer; increase system security; improve energy efficiency; clean registry; and many more.

Users can activate hundreds of hidden Windows settings to get the most out of your Windows, and turn off and increase the speed of Windows shutdown with Red Button.

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Registry First Aid Standard is a program that scans your computer system for orphan file/folder references. The program also finds files or folders on your drives that may have been moved from their initial locations, and makes all necessary corrections in your registry entries in order to match the located files or folders. Registry First Aid Standard program also has the ability to delete or remove invalid entries that have links to deleted applications in your registry. That means your system can regain its speed just as it was when you purchased it.

Some of the latest changes that can be easily noticed in this version include; Windows 32 & 64 bit support, full Unicode support, new interface, new enhanced registry scan engine, and speed of registry snapshot comparison is much increased, default excluded registry keys are now internal-only user exclusions will be shown in the settings dialog. I must commend the publishers for a job well done on the new user interface, which has a new help menu among other changes and additions.

A good program to help you system up and running once again; possesses great features to fix errors and delete unwanted application files. Registry First Aid Standard 8.0.0 is a shareware program.

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DFX is a sound enhancement, sound improvement and dsp effect program for digital music. Users who have this program installed on their system might just have their opportunities to finally able to experience superior high fidelity. DFX enhanced version of this player transforms the sound of an average computer into that of an expensive stereo system placed in a highly designed listening environment.

DFX Audio Enhancer gives your media player more vibrant sound by improving the sound quality of MP3, AAC, Windows Media, Internet Radio, DivX videos, and other popular media files. DFX Audio Enhancer also helps to renew stereo depth, add 3D surround sound, restore sound clarity, boost your audio levels, and produce deeper and richer bass sounds. Some other features in this version include: optimization for headphones usage; audio spectrum analyzer; finely-tuned music presets; free stylish skins; and a powerful music and speech audio modes.

DFX Audio Enhancer is a freeware program, and is fully compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Users are also allowed a free fully-featured trial version to see and have a feel of what this latest version has to offer. The full version of DFX Audio Enhancer goes for $19.99 per program.

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ExactFile 1.0.0.15 Beta is a program that has the combined functions of programs like; Fsum, Md5sum, ssfv, and sfalsum. Since it is multi-threaded, all those extra CPU cores on your system will actually get used to make checksum calculation of multiple files much faster. All versions of ExactFile (the console and the GUI) fully support Unicode; which is very unlike many other tools that may or never work on files names with non-ANSI characters. Version 1.0.0.15 is still in Beta version, and some few noticeable changes include; installer that offers associate ExactFile with extensions like exf, md5, sha1, and sfv; and completes the Windows “open with support.”

Some of the things you can use ExactFile for include: using it to make sure files copied to CD-ROM are bit-perfect copies; using it to make sure backups copied from one drive to another are just right; and using it to make sure files haven’t been changed or damaged over time. Some of the features include: supports multiple checksum routines; supports recursive directory scanning; compatible with popular checksum digest format; and many others.

ExactFile 1.0.0.15 is a freeware program, and is still in Beta stage. One may have to wait a while to see what becomes of it after this stage. However, it is still a great program all the same.

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If you are looking for a game optimizer for your gaming experience and delight, check this program out. Game Booster is designed to help optimize your computer for an even smoother responsive game play in the latest computer games with the touch of a button. It can enable you achieve the performance edge formerly available only to highly technical game lovers. The program works by helping you to temporarily shut down background processes, cleaning RAM, and also intensifying processor performance. The result of this is that you can always keep all the features of Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 ready whenever you need them; and still be able to turn them off when you are also ready to get down to work or serious business. Game Booster 2.0 Beta 1.1 is a fine program to help you take your gaming experience to a whole new dimension.

Definitely one of the best optimizers I have seen around; it just enhances the responsive game play in any latest computer game play. Game Booster is fully compatible with PunkBuster, Cheating-Death, VAC, and any other anti-cheat software.

Some of the key features of this freeware include: more CPU and RAM to your games, making it load and run even faster than ever; defragment game directory and files; boost the stability of your game; and, many more.

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Gadwin PrintScreen is a screen capturing program that allows you to capture the contents of the screen with just a single keystroke. Users can save captured screen to disk as a file in six different graphics file format or send it to the printer. When the hot key is pressed by a user, Gadwin is capable of capturing the whole screen, the active window or specified area. The program allows you to set or define other key features to initiate a capture.

Gadwin PrintScreen can works for people who would love to show off their products on the web, enhance technical documents, and embed captures into presentations. It also works for users who would love to capture and print or perhaps save computer screen data. On most Windows computers, a full screen of data can be put on the clipboard by pressing the PrintScreen key. Whatever is sent by you is seen on the clipboard that must be edited in a different graphics programs to cut the right size and image format.

I am absolutely impressed by this program, and I have great respect for the publishers who have put together a wonderful job. No crash recorded yet during use, and I doubt if any is going to be recorded.

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Language Tutor is a foreign language vocabulary learning software good for anyone who wants to learn either French or English vocabulary. The software will help you practice with 6.500 words and short expressions to translate from your mother language to any language of your choice and backward. There are two different stages of progression; these are the lesson stage to assess your actual level of knowledge, and the repetition stage to exercise your memory using the proven spaced repetition algorithm.

Language Tutor has features that include the following: the combination of English.Spanish, French.English, Spanish.French; inclusion of two databases for reverse learning; nine categories/54 lessons/6500 questions; two stages, lesson and repetition; spaced repetition method; two levels of difficulties; three users can log on alternatively; words and expressions delivered in context when needed; integrated help and FAQ pages; visual and audio aids to track progress; last question and answers are kept on screens; four lessons selected at any time; learning of number and gender of nouns; learning of nearly 10,000 words in total; time-saving procedure for articles in English; a comfortable screen size and a no distraction screen option; and many more.

Language Tutor EN+FR 1.2.6 has a trial limitation period that last for ten days for those who would like to try it out.

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Flexible Renamer is a file/folder renaming application that can use Wildcard or Regular-Expression and Tag-information (MP3, EXIF). Version 8.3 comes with additional changes and fixes that include the following: Windows 7 taskbar progress; Windows 7 taskbar list; fixed, “won’t launch after closing it in case of minimizing”; Nega-Colour arrangement; fixed, “property is not retrieved in case of the extension is upper-cased letter; and initialize the rename setting when terminating abnormally last time (deal with a problem of terminating abnormally even while reactivating and terminating abnormally).

Some of the recent language translation include; English/Japanese, Italian, French, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Deutsch.

Many new users are still going to find it difficult to find their ways around some of the features of this program. I have seen some few programs out there that have easy to understand user interfaces, and easy to understand features. Flexible Renamer is actually a freeware, and has wonderful features; especially if users can get to understand how they work in quick time. At least this is a good program for anyone who does not feel like grabbing a shareware in order to carry out his renaming assignments.

Flexible Renamer 8.3 runs on Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2008.

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TeraCopy is a program designed to help copy and move files at faster speed; and also built with a lot of features. The program uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives; and in an even of any copy error, it will try as many times as possible before skipping the file, and actually terminating the whole transfer. It ca n also replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing users to work with files as usual.

TeraCopy 2.2 comes with an uninstaller, and a few fixes that include: addition of new language strings; fixing of crash when testing md5 files; fixing of always test target folder and request admin privileges if needed; addition of option ‘ForcesameDriveMode’ to ini file; addition of CardReader to ini file; and addition of better USB devices ejection. This freeware program also comes with full support for Unicode, as well as support for Windows 7 x64.

TeraCopy 2.2 is free for home use only, but users can also go for the pro version, which comes with more added features and uses like; removing selected files from the copy queue, free updates and priority support, and copy/move to favorite folder.

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